Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of proof is not proof of absence.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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